Since I will now be staying here permanently, I want to arrange to bring my computer and NAS over. I need to find out when my sister can arrange to have her associate bring it over, and I need to find an accessible place for it. I might ask for a second wheeled table to put monitor, keyboard, and mouse. The computer does not need to be accessible except for the rare reboot. Windows 10 has been very reliable, I can leave the computer on for weeks at a time.

I have both of your books, an audio chapter from one of your books, and the 3d photon tower rendering you did in the Tdarchive I created and saved on the cloud so let me know if you ever need me to send you anything. I wanted to do much more, specifically the cartoons you had done, but never got around to it before everything occurred.

I have Tripkey in my interactive fiction library on my website but I don't remember the directory name or FTP password. It's in my desktop computer in Filezilla. Right now I can't get to it.

[quote=Tdarcos post_id=101800 time=1561010453 user_id=829]Let us know if you're interested in either Patty Flinger or Tripkey.[/quote]

Was this rhetorical?

[quote=Tdarcos post_id=101800 time=1561010453 user_id=829]Let us know if you're interested in either Patty Flinger or Tripkey.[/quote]

I'm interested in both!

[quote="Billy Mays" post_id=101797 time=1561004098 user_id=1042]
Great idea, ICJ, I'd love to play a game made by Paul! [/quote]
I've written two. One was a game I developed for Jonsey called "Patty Flinger" where you have a grid of your choice size and you're throwing pork products at him for points. Why pork products? Because your opponent wears a Star of David! Also, on larger grids if you miss but you're close, you get "splash damage," giving you partial points. Don't forget to take a pee every so often.

The Second is called [i]Tripkey[/i]. Your objective is to exit the game. Which you do by finding the Tripkey. How? Well, that's the problem. Hint: you'll need to negotiate with the sentient cottage cheese.

That came out because I think Jonsey said you couldn't develop a dynamic teleporter in Hugo. Never challenge a computer programmer by saying "you can't," because they may very well write a program to prove you wrong. That's what I did. I wrote a demo that created a dynamic teleporter that you could choose what places were available at run time.

Let us know if you're interested in either Patty Flinger or Tripkey.

[quote="Billy Mays" post_id=101797 time=1561004098 user_id=1042]
Great idea, ICJ, I'd love to play a game made by Paul! [/quote]
I've written two. One was a game I developed for Jonsey called "Patty Flinger" where you have a grid of your choice size and you're throwing pork products at him for points. Why pork products? Because your opponent wears a Star of David! Also, on larger grids if you miss but you're close, you get "splash damage," giving you partial points. Don't forget to take a pee every so often.

The Second is called [i]Tripkey[/i]. Your objective is to exit the game. Which you do by finding the Triplet. How? Well, that's the problem. Hint: you'll need to negotiate with the sentient cottage cheese.

Let us know if you're interested in either.

[quote="Billy Mays" post_id=101797 time=1561004098 user_id=1042]
How are those kindles? I was thinking about getting one but was concerned about screen fatigue over the course of long reading sessions.
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Forget the Kindle. Buy the largest Android tablet you can find, which is usually 10,1" It will be larger than a kindle, you can download Amazon Kindle app which does everything the device does, and I've bought a tablet that size for under $40, and even includes a cell phone you can insert a sim card and also an SD card for more storage. Or you can pay more for a better tablet.

Great idea, ICJ, I'd love to play a game made by Paul! Sign me up as a play tester if you decide to go through with it.

How are those kindles? I was thinking about getting one but was concerned about screen fatigue over the course of long reading sessions.

The 2019 Interactive Fiction Competition is open for new games - if you can make one and finish it before September 30, you should enter!

I'm quite a ways into it. It reminds me of Robert A. Heinlein's [i]Universe.[/i]

Wool is excellent! I read the whole series. Great setting and interesting concepts. I won't spoil anything for you plot-wise for you.

I decided to try the three month trial of Kindle Unlimited which is $9.95 for the first three months, then $9.95 a month after that. Given it allows access to thousands of books, and I now have lots of time on my hands lying immobile in a sickbed, I might as well do something other than lie around and watch TV upwards of 12 or more hours a day,

I'm currently reading a book called "Wool," by Hugh Howey. I just started yesterday, and I've only read the first 52 pages, but it is quite interesting. With a number of textbooks also available I might be able to improve my computer skills. Who knows, maybe I'll develop an app that sells so many copies I make a lot of money. Or at least, have fun, which, I think, is the most important thing of all.